Saturday, February 7, 2009

Hydroplaning.

Verb [intrans.]
1 (of a vehicle) slide uncontrollably on the wet surface of a road: a motorist whose car hydroplaned and crashed into a tree.

Yesterday I got into my car, plugged in my I-pod, fastened my seatbelt and I was off. I drive the I-880 South freeway almost everyday I go to school. When I exit “Alvarado Niles Road” there’s always this really sharp left turn you have to make. (If you’ve ever exited there then you know what I’m talking about.) Knowing it was raining, I came into this turn going about 20-25mph. I was halfway turned and all of a sudden I hear a big explosion and my car spun a 360 into the divider, with the front of my car facing towards traffic, and my car’s engine shutoff. Just couldn’t believe I hydroplaned. I was like “OH SHIT!” I sat there for a minute, just trying to catch my breath because I panicked, I’m not gonna lie, my hands were shaking a lot. I turned my car on, and drove to the side of the road where I also didn’t notice I ran a red light trying to get to there. A cop blurped me and I jumped out to check the side of my car, come to find out, my front right tire popped and the wheel behind it got pushed in. So the cop jumped out to tell me I ran a red light, and he said he was going to have to write me up. I flipped out and told him what just happened and he understood the situation and called Triple AAA for me. So I called my dad, and I just chilled in my car. Time being; in total four considerate people pulled over trying to help me out. Tow truck came, thought it was just a flat, changed my tire, and said I was good to go. That wasn’t the only problem, after he changed the front tire, and as I drove off the toe guy noticed my back wheel was all wobbly. He pulled me over and said the funniest thing “It looked like your cars’ wheel was shaking its ass from left to right” which cracked me up. My dad picked me up and we followed the tow truck, and the rest was paper work. Now at this point some people would say they almost died but it was more like I almost got hurt, big time, I came out of it with no scratches (thank god), and a person who’s experienced hydroplaning.

On another note around 6-7ish Frances, Anthony, Krystina, and Jace came to my house and we chit chatted for a little bit. Krystina took off around 8, we picked up Chris afterwards and then we headed of to see “Notorious.” Notorious (for all of those who don’t know) is a movie about one of the greatest MC’s of all time. Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious B.I.G “And if you don’t know, now you know *****.” (Juicy) The movie was a 9/10, only because I learned new things I didn’t know about him before, and the overall film was coo. It’s worth the $10.

P.S.
I came home to my first Jury duty letter, which is kind of cool, but at the same pretty wack.


I also recieved my package today which was pretty sweet.

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